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In every direction they could o go. they are professionals of the highest integrity. theyll deliver the results, the competent results that they have come to. i think we should pay that great ease. >> one final question, i am going to give you one more. would you be surprise if robert mueller did not find any evidence of conspiracy? >> i would not be surprise by anything at this point. whatever mueller comes forward with, i will take his conclusions to hard and give them the respect that he dese...

Dont editorialize on it. dont assume its a hate crime. if its a possible me-too victim, report on it. get the facts. doesnt draw conclusions in the opening story. if its a story about donald trump, as your editor dont go to war! not our jobs even if it feels good politically. lets social justice lawyers take care of social justice. weep should just report, right? >> right. i think media organizations really should look at their twitter policies. >> amen. >> potential instances like it and a lot ...

They used to be harm fool the opponents of any candidate he was supporting. and hopefully he has learned and wont end up in jail for this. >> meanwhile as that drama with roger stone plays out, multiple outlets are reporting that special counsel, rob rbt mueller, will submit his final report soon. theres no guarantee that its conclusions will be made public, its still an open questions to whether any new indictments will conduct that report. according to giuliani the presidents legal team has no...

Executive branch, voted for transparency, voted for disclosure, and if the department of justice refuses to publicly release the findings themselves then i believe it will be our responsibility to make sure that we subpoena that information, that we present it to the american people, and that we even call bob mueller on the list to testify to explain their conclusions. >> and others in addition to mueller, for example, could include other members of his prosecutorial team, possibly. >> thats abs...

Because to some extent the justice department position right now that a president cant be indicted, it rests on the conclusions of that 1973 office of legal counsel opinion by robert dixon. i mean, thats where it started. thats the foundation. the justice department did take another look at the matter in 2000 during the clinton administration. stands as doj policy today, it starts with this 1973 doj opinion. weve spoken to j.t. smith some more about this in recent weeks, and what he says about t...

William barr has any obligation to do anything except inform the committees that there is a report and that its been delivered. >> everything is pure speculation at this time in terms of when the report is going to be issued, what its going to look like. people refer to that its going to be a concise report. but it could be 50 pages or more, which would be a concise summary of a very complex two-year investigation. and also mr. barr is not bound by any law. these are department of justice polici...

People understand what is likely if mueller does hand bill barr some information. then what? >> right, so i think in effect they do mandate a public report. there are two reports in the special counsel regulations that are required. one is the more comprehensive report that mueller has to give to barr at the conclusion of his investigation. he has to write a summary of everything he did and the conclusions he reached. and then second there has to be a report from barr, the attorney general to th...

Jumping to conclusions. you cant jump to conclusions. isnt that the lesson of this? >> im not saying we have to jump to a conclusion, if someone comes forward with an allegation, i think it behooves journalists not to just dismiss it but check it out. >> check it out. as journalists doesnt believe it if youre a journalist, you actually -- check o it o i think weve made progress in the last couple of weeks about understanding that. and i the real damage is that jesse molet has hurt the moodia

-- system. >> the presumption of guilt against white attackers wearing m maga masks. once again everybody is rushing out, l it was this or whatever happened in that covington, kentucky case or the cavanaugh stories coming out one after another and by the end it was spiked punch lines. everybody on twitter just jumping to conclusions instead of sitting back and waiting for the facts. >> look, i think the person who is allegedly to blame here is jussie smollett, who allegedly made up this abominab...

Oversight committee on wednesday. were also joined by congressman hakim jeffries of new york, a member of the house judiciary committee, which has jurisdiction over the impeachment process in the house of representatives. and congressman jeffries, will your committee subpoena the mueller report if it is not delivered by the attorney general? >> its my expectation that, you know, the house of representatives as the custodians of our democracy right now, the american people voted for meaningful ch...